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Season 3 opens with Hakeem leaving the altar, and a rooftop fight between Anika and Rhonda leading to a tragic fall; Lucious uses his streaming service to pursue his music legacy and clashes with Tariq, who leads a federal task force to investigate him.
After an explosive premier, I had higher expectations for Empire Season 3 Episode 2 The episode did a nice job with setting up the bigger story for the season.
The writers leave us on a bleak note this week, as a continuous reminder of the disparity in justice, solely based on the color of one's skin in America. If you ever doubted this was a Lee Daniel's show, these moments bring you back in.
Empire knows it's a soap opera, with an obligation to give viewers all the romance and skulduggery that entails, but amid its manufactured madness, the show displays an equal sense of obligation to reflect the world in which we live.
Empire, I love you and your newfound focus this season (despite the inexplicable flashbacks to teenage Cookie and Lucious), but I don't know if you're the right show to take on police brutality and the trauma of the black community.